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This work (review based on original 1947) edition is helpful in understanding how the Jewish survivors of the German-made Holocaust emerged from hiding, described their wartime experiences, and were attempting to rebuild their lives. It also gives insights into Soviet-ruled Poland, and the impending imposition of the Communist puppet state.
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Jews Massively Moving Back to Poland--in the Jewish Imagination,
February 4, 2014
This review is from: Operation Shylock : A Confession (Vintage International) (Paperback)
Many reviews already describe the main features of this book, and my review tackles it from a different angle. By way of introduction, some Poles have been concerned with a potential erosion of Poland's sovereignty owing to growing Jewish influence over Poland, and some Poles have gone as far as suggesting that Jews could massively come back to live in Poland, and even create a latter-day Judeopolonia.
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Egregiously Judeocentric, With a Facts-Don't-Matter Mindset,
February 14, 2014
This review is from: Imaginary Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust (Paperback)
This work is the same-old, same-old. It focuses exclusively on Jews as victims (notably at Jedwabne), Poles and Christians as villains, with Poles and Christians needing to constantly prostrate themselves for their villainy. Polish patriotism is demonized. The language is academese and Holocaustspeak, and the themes are predictable. The authors writing, or mentioned, are primarily leftists: Joanna B. Michlic, Ana Bikont, Brian Porter (now Brian Porter-Szucs), Janina Bauman, former U. B. (Bezpieka) member Zygmunt Bauman, and others like them.
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[Review based on 1981 edition.] Jacob Neusner notes that modes of thinking and behavior may have originated from non-Jews, but "became Jewish" by being adapted by Jews as their own. For instance, the Talmudic dialectic did not originate with Jews. It found derivation from Greek forms of rhetoric, as well as ancient Roman principles of legal codification. (p. 49).>>more...

This is more of the same coming out of left-wing academic circles. It is almost entirely a rehash of things written many times before. I give it two stars because of its comprehensiveness and its relatively objective portrayal of the doubts about what actually happened at Jedwabne, as well as the implications of the Holocaust Industry. (See below).>>more...